| Psychology is by no means only the study of adult | | | | complications born of deafness, blindness, and the like. |
| minds and emotions. In an increasingly complex and | | | | Many children's speech impairments can also be |
| stress-oriented world, children are just as affected by | | | | resolved by a trained child psychologist. |
| the abnormalities of daily life as adults are. The sad | | | | It is now well known that psychological problems that |
| story of modern society speaks of child abuse, incest, | | | | crop up in childhood can translate into serious |
| family discord, drug and alcohol abuse, and other major | | | | consequences like criminality later on. At the very least, |
| problems. | | | | unresolved psychological complications can result in an |
| Had child psychology been a better understood | | | | unhappy and traumatized adulthood. These are some |
| subject three or four decades ago, the present rate of | | | | of the potholes along the highway of modern life that |
| juvenile crime and delinquency might not have reached | | | | child psychologists help to fill. |
| such alarming proportions. It is the feelings about and | | | | Interestingly, child psychology finds decisive application |
| reactions to the inputs during childhood that formulate a | | | | in the problems faced by especially gifted children, too. |
| youth's policies and beliefs for future life. | | | | Children with learning difficulties face problems with the |
| In addition, there are many problems, unrelated to | | | | educational and family systems. In the same manner, |
| environmental and social circumstances that affect | | | | so-called prodigies find themselves alienated from |
| children in particular. Child psychology addresses clinical | | | | mainstream life by virtue of their exceptional talents |
| problems that beset children and early adolescents. | | | | and capabilities. In every imbalance of early and late |
| These include mental retardation, autism, learning | | | | childhood, a child psychologist can avert serious |
| impairments such as dyslexia, behavior disorders and | | | | problems. |